Fantastic all around!! Rafal and his developers went above and beyond to deliver amazing work in a timely manner, even when we dropped the ball or had last minute emergency changes. We had been burned by an overseas dev team before and were skeptical to try again, but were blown away with the communication and professionalism from everybody on his team. They able to rebuild our PHP application, update connections and tables for our backend RDS instance, and then create an admin dashboard compatible with our old framework but also the updated Laraval framework they later rolled out too.
Rafal started with suggesting some tools they usually use to project manage, communicate (trello), and code repo (bitbucket), but was open to anything else we might prefer (they helped us set these up quickly and efficiently). They were quick to grasp what we were looking for, and every timing approximation they provided for feature/task completion was accurate. Everyone was transparent and forthcoming about issues that arose as they dug into our application, and they clearly presented options with tradeoffs on how they thought best to move forward.
After the initial work was over (and deadline met!), Rafal talked to us about our current backend and how, while they were able to work with it initially to get the job done and meet our deadline, it should be updated from the old, out-of-date framework the previous devs slapped together. He was very honest in saying that the current rollout would continue to work just fine, and it could be left as is, but that working with the older system would usually cost more time, and would be less compatible with some of the other features we talked about adding in the future.
We absolutely will hire Rafal and his team again when we look to update our application for next year's cycle, and would not hesitate to use them for any other development needs or recommend them to anyone we know looking for a talented, professional dev team. Wonderful, wonderful experience.
John M.
Mistletoe Foundation